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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






2. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






3. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






4. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






5. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






6. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






7. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






8. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






9. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






10. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






11. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






12. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






13. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






14. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






15. What a story or play is about.






16. A four line stanza in a poem.






17. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






18. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






19. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






20. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






21. A three-line stanza.






22. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






23. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






24. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






25. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






26. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






27. A character struggles against some outside force.






28. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






29. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






30. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






33. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






34. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






35. The person who 'tells' the story.






36. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.


37. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






38. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






39. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






40. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






41. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






42. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






43. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






44. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






45. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






46. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






47. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






48. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






49. The organizational form of a literary work.






50. The selection of words in a literary work.